Lean Business Process Improvement Tool – Particular

The Innovative Business Process Improvement Template will help you describe the process information with the help of your team members, then instantly, you will be able to VISUALIZE the key performance metrics. This approach will enable you and your team to highlight opportunities for improvements, then optimize your processes while introducing the latest technologies. Then the best part, is for you to be able to compare the actual vs target processes with 16 insightful KPI’s.

This exercise will facilitate the establishment of your business needs, business requirements, ROI investment analysis, and fast track your process improvement project, ref BIZBOK, BABOK.

The Innovative Business Process Improvement Template will save you and your team time in your process improvement journey since the methodology is standardized, and all tables and 16 KPI’s are already formatted and adapted to your own cycle time horizon and company’s hourly rate.

You don’t need to be a Lean expert to use the tool. The instruction and video tutorial will guide you in the process.

You can start using as little as 3 fields, such as process task number, task name and task duration. Then the other fields are optional and be completed later as you see fit.

Here are some of the other fields:

• VA (Value Added) task, gateway, event
• NVA (Non-Value Added) tasks such as delay/waiting, transportation, inspection/correction, searching, approval, other
• RASCI (Responsible, Accountable, Support, Control, Informed) table
• Assets / Technology table
• Input and Output
• Previous and next steps
• Risk, control
• Rule/Policy
• KPI
• Quick Performance light indicator
• Issues, business needs
• Other

Here are some of the 16 tables and 16 KPI’s:

• Process Cycle time in minutes or hours, days, weeks
• Process time by activity type (including or excluding delays)
• Process quality: VA and NVA activity numbers by activity type
• Process cost for 1 instance (including or excluding delays)
• Total process cost for your chosen period (hours, days, weeks), (including or excluding delays)

The package includes:

• Lean Process Improvement Tool template (excel) downloadable.
• Instruction on all process fields with guidelines (in excel template).
• Sample exercise with actual and target processes (pdf) downloadable.
• Free video tutorial

Take a look at the demo tutorials to have a deeper dive into a complete example.

Tool Summary video:

Detailed tutorial video with Actual and Target processes analysis.